The Works of the English Poets, Volume 49G. Bigg, 1779 - 324 pages |
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... Such were the dawnings of my watery reign ; But fince how vast it grew , how abfolute , Ev'n in those troubled times , when dreadful Blake nations with the British name , 99 9.52 Aw'd angry Let every humbled state , let Europe say ...
... Such were the dawnings of my watery reign ; But fince how vast it grew , how abfolute , Ev'n in those troubled times , when dreadful Blake nations with the British name , 99 9.52 Aw'd angry Let every humbled state , let Europe say ...
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... Such thy dire plains , thou self - defroyer ! foe To human kind ! Thy mountains too , profufe , Where favage nature blooms , feem their fad plaint To raise against thy defolating rod . There on the breezy brow , where thriving states ...
... Such thy dire plains , thou self - defroyer ! foe To human kind ! Thy mountains too , profufe , Where favage nature blooms , feem their fad plaint To raise against thy defolating rod . There on the breezy brow , where thriving states ...
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... Such in one land , beneath the fame fair clime , 225 Thy fons , Oppreffion , are ; and fuch were Mine . Ev'n with thy labour'd pomp , for whofe vain fhow Deluded thoufands ftarve ; all age - begrim'd , Torn , robb'd and scatter'd in ...
... Such in one land , beneath the fame fair clime , 225 Thy fons , Oppreffion , are ; and fuch were Mine . Ev'n with thy labour'd pomp , for whofe vain fhow Deluded thoufands ftarve ; all age - begrim'd , Torn , robb'd and scatter'd in ...
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... fullest bleffings flow ; And where my jealous unfubmitting foul , The dread of tyrants ! burns in every breast : Learn hence , if such the miserable fate 315 320 Of . Of an heroic race , the mafters once Of human PAKT I. LIBERTY . 27.
... fullest bleffings flow ; And where my jealous unfubmitting foul , The dread of tyrants ! burns in every breast : Learn hence , if such the miserable fate 315 320 Of . Of an heroic race , the mafters once Of human PAKT I. LIBERTY . 27.
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... Such thy fure rules , that Goths of every age , Who fcorn'd their aid , have only loaded earth With labour'd heavy monuments of shame . Not thofe gay domes that o'er thy fplendid shore Shot , all proportion , up . First unadorn'd , And ...
... Such thy fure rules , that Goths of every age , Who fcorn'd their aid , have only loaded earth With labour'd heavy monuments of shame . Not thofe gay domes that o'er thy fplendid shore Shot , all proportion , up . First unadorn'd , And ...
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